Buying, selling or exchanging Bitcoins or other crypto-currencies for other currencies or commodities.
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Has anyone used Buybitcoinaustralia.com? [closed]
I am relativity new to bit coins. I have used spendbitcoins.com before but today I found a site buybitcoinaustralia.com. They have the cheapest fee I have seen around and claim that I can do the whole ...
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Understanding trading history
On BTC-E, you can see the recent trade history for the different currency pairs. For example right now you see these recent trades:
14.05.13 01:27 Sell 112.75 USD 4.77859 BTC 538.7860225 USD
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Windows trading software
Is there any advanced trading software available for windows platform? I came across goxtool, which is pretty much what I'd like to try, but runs only on linux.
I am looking for a client that offers ...
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Is Bitcoin a trending or a ranging market at the moment?
I would like to know if the current Bitcoin market is a trending market or a ranging market and how can one find out if the market is trending or ranging, in general?
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How to buy a million ripples?
If someone wanted to buy up lots of ripples, say a million, how would they go about doing it?
Currently the exchanges don't seem to give good rates, and trading one-to-one with someone else would be ...
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What happens if an exchange's order book has only Market Orders [closed]
If a bitcoin exchange offers Market Orders, let's suppose there are X buy orders at market price, and Y sell orders at market price (no limit orders):
How are these matched and at what price, since ...
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Will I pay BID price or lowest necessary amount?
I was wondering about how ASKs and BIDs are matched:
Say I set up two separate trading accounts on mtgox.
On my first account, I offer to sell 1 BTC for 1000 USD
...Nobody will buy it (at current ...
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following coins between blockchains
Question: is it possible to further obfuscate ownership/origin of bitcoins by trading it for another cryptocurrency at an exchange? (as it is easier to do this for large amounts than it is with cash)
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How Does One Make Money from Bitcoin Trading?
Now, this is my disclaimer: I'm very, very inexperienced with trading and general concepts of finance.
The way I understand it, the only way to make money from bitcoin is either to mine them ...
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Open Source Bitcoin Trading Software
Does anyone know if someone has created an open source (preferrably LAMP/PHP based) software package so that they can bring up their own BTC to ?currency? trading site?
I would love to be the guy ...
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What are ways a BTC Exchange could steal from its customers, and how can they protect themselves?
Mt Gox is the dominant Exchange that handles BTC to USD conversions. Given the recent spike in price, and that Mt Gox is the primary exchange that publishes this price, it's conceivable that a second ...
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Can you use BTC without mining?
Question: Can I just buy/sell/trade to BTC and hold it and still be profitable? I mean with money you'd need to invest it in stocks, bonds, and etc to make more cash and simply holding on to cash over ...
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Trade someone else's bitcoin without storing their API keys
Little time ago I started playing with a bot I wrote to trade bitcoins using my personal mtgox credential. My friends wants to use it.
How can I provide my bot as a service (24/7) to them without ...
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How are per-day statistics computed on MtGox in the middle of the day? [duplicate]
MtGox trades 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Yet charts show daily charts and volume stats, especially intraday, when does the trading session begin and end on Mt. Gox, for reporting purposes? Also, ...
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How is “engine lag” on Mt Gox calculated?
When looking at external API-driven charts of Mt Gox trades, there is a "Trading engine lag" shown, which shows the backlog of orders queued and waiting-to-be-executed, relative to the present time:
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How will Mt.Gox select matching orders if asking for a price that is higher than available prices
E.g. if we have this order stock:
SELL 0.5 BTC @ PRICE $72 $/BTC (1)
SELL 3 BTC @ PRICE $75 $/BTC (2)
SELL 0.5 BTC @ PRICE $76 $/BTC (3)
And trying to buy 3.5 bitcoins for a price at $76.5 (higher ...
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Getting GBP back from Bitcoin?
I have a handful of BTC that thanks to the recent interest are now worth me trying to get back into GBP that I can spend. I've done a little research, but the only methods of converting my BTC into ...
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Discussion community for rapid automated trading
Are there any discussion communities specifically focused on rapid and automated bitcoin trading and speculation? I'm talking about analysis of algorithms for making trades every few seconds in ...
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How much does it cost to buy and sell bitcoins?
I'm a newbie.
Lets say I see the btc usd exchange graphs and see that it has tripled in the last month and I decide to put $5k in hoping it will grow.
What is the least amount of USD I could spend ...
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Can I buy bitcoins with moneygram in Australia?
I notice you can do it like this in the U.S http://vimeo.com/44849463 but is the same method possible in Australia? We do have moneygram at 7-11's here.
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any exchange to sell naked puts on bitcoin? [duplicate]
I would like to sell puts on bitcoin to collect premiums if bitcoin goes up in value to usd, and to be long bitcoins at a lower price if I get exercised. This is much more predictable for me than just ...
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How can we prevent distortion of the bitcoin exchange rate?
Is there anything within the structure of bitcoin exchanges to prevent bitcoin price distortion with multiple accounts controlled by one person?
I have seen stocks with similar levels of liquidity be ...
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How does Ripple decide which offer to fulfil if they offer the same rate?
If two offers have the same exchange rate, how does Ripple decide which one to fulfil first?
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Is Ripple's trade history recorded?
Currently there isn't a graph of the ripple trade values.
I'd like to know if each trade is recorded in the Ripple's equivalent of the blockchain, so that if in future someone wants to build such ...
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How can I determine the largest single batch of stock sold / purchased and its impact on price? [closed]
I'm curious how a large single transaction could affect BTC trade price. If the large buyer were to transact BTC in a single Tx then what is the effect that would have on price?
I think this ...
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What is Skrill's policy on its use in BTC trading?
Is Skrill tolerant of Bitcoin trade using its system?
Does it have any kind of history of reversing transactions or suspending accounts involved in Bitcoin trading?
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Average cost of mining per BTC over time
Are there any approximations to the average cost of mining of a BTC over time?
The reason I ask is because I think that as this ratio will affect the general availability of Bitcoins on MtGox, and ...
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Do any ETFs purchase Bitcoins? Is that scenario possible?
Is there any ETF that allows for the purchase of Bitcoins?
Is this possible?
More info...
An ETF is like a stock that is publicly traded on the stock market, and it can represent:
A ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of 24/7 Bitcoin trading?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of 24/7 Bitcoin trading over traditional stock market which operates only 6 - 8 hours a day and 5 days a week? Any threats?
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Trading software
I googled some time, but didn't find anything - is it possible to add btc market into software like meta trader? Or is there any (free) analysis software for that?
I just found info about some ...
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Should earnings in Bitcoin converter to a traditional currency be treated as trading-income or non-trading income for tax purposes?
Should earnings in Bitcoin converter to a traditional currency be treated as trading income or non-trading income for tax purposes (for example, in Ireland)? Reason for them being considered trading ...
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How does the price of 1 BTC compare to other commodities?
I'm looking for a chart of Bitcoin's price and market cap to other commodities like silver, gold, etc.
Does such a chart exist?
Why is this useful? Because I want to see how the USD compares to ...
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Which exchanges offer stop-loss functionality?
In case of a sudden price fall, I want to sell my coins automaticly. MtGox doesn't have an option for this, which exchanges do?
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Is it possible to buy or sell Bitcoin options?
Like put and call options for a stock, but for the future price of Bitcoin?
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How To Use BitPay
We have a online computer company written in PHP
www.cworld.com.au
A sister site we have uses Magento
How can we use BitPay to enable our site for BTC..Is there an API
Can we get paid for every ...
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What Income Could I Expect as an OTC BitCoin Trader
How long is a piece of string?
Given "typical" UK market conditions, if I wanted to trade BitCoins as an OTC trader (via LocalBitCoins, IRC etc) - what income could I expect? £10/day? £100/day? ...
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How Does trading on the Exchanges Work?
Pardon my Ignorance but can somebody explain the basics
Of how trading (Bid Buy/Bid Sell) works of the common exchanges
www.mtgox.com
www.btc-e.com
Aslo some of the common ways people or ...
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Where do the majority of Bitcoin transactions take place?
I'm new to Bitcoin and am trying to wrap my head around where and when bitcoins are used. I understand that Bitcoin is accepted by a lot of legitimate websites (now reddit, wordpress, etc) for ...
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How Long for a transaction? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to debug a long “0/unconfirmed” status in the bitcoin client?
I have sent a transaction to btc-e and 3 Hours later still no love
I thought there was 6 new blocks ...
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Can I use bitcoin as a means of bypassing Argentine Dollar restrictions?
I am planning on doing some small-time buying/selling with a friend who is in the States. I am in Argentina and I do not have a way of reimbursing him in Dollars for products that he buys, sends to ...
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Why shouldn't I accept PayPal when trading bitcoin?
I've heard that it's not a good idea to accept PayPal payments in exchange for Bitcoin. Why?
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Can the sender of a MtGox code see which account the code is redeemed to?
In other words, if I receive a MtGox code and redeem it to my account, can the person who gave me the bitcoins, via the code, see that my account was the account that redeemed it?
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What is the reputation of bitfloor?
It seems that bitfloor is a well designed trading platform, and a competitor to MtGox. However, the trading volume is low.
How long has bitfloor been in business?
Have there been any negative ...
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Does the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission govern Bitcoin?
Do SEC regulations apply to:
Exchange of Bitcoin for US dollars
Investing in companies with Bitcoin
An exchange that sells shares of company stock for Bitcoin
Bitcoin futures contracts
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Are there any active Bitcoin leveraged trading platforms available?
For awhile Bitcoinica was a very popular leveraged trading service, but it got hacked and closed down. Are there any more services like that still functioning in the Bitcoin ecosystem?
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How do I convert Bitcoin to cash at my bank via Mt. Gox?
If I use Mt.Gox to do this, what are the specific steps I need to take?
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Is it possible to collect bitcoins? (as a collectors item)
Is there any analogy to collecting BitCoins as there is in the physical world?
For example, some notriety was given to the Pizza for bitcoin transaction here, and one of the answers was able to ...
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Is this a good time to enter mining?
This is a question that has been on my mind for a while. I was going to buy a server farm to mine Bitcoins and I was wondering if it would be practical to jump on the mining bandwagon at the current ...
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Can OTC help lessen the cost of slippage and exchange rate risk?
Obviously one can transact currency via buying BTCs on an exchange transacting them to another person which itself sells the BTCs received on an exchange - this would limit the possibilities of ...
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Can bitcoins be bought wholesale?
What options are available to purchase bitcoins in bulk (e.g. a buy in the range of ten thousand dollars or more) without having to mess around with a market exchange?
How can it be determined if the ...
